Payments startup Circle is getting political. The stablecoin issuer is working with the U.S. government to bypass Nicolás Maduro and support the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela led by Juan…
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First Mover: Bitcoin Hits $11K as Square Exposes $2.3T Corporate Money Pot – CoinDesk
Payments company Square’s announcement that it would put some $50 million, or 1% of its assets, into bitcoin has touched off speculation that more corporations might do the same. Jack…
Ripple Exec Unveils P2P Payments Platform Using XRP – CoinDesk
A Ripple executive has unveiled a payments platform based on XRP that will work in popular web browsers. Disclosure The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet…
Reflections on Bitcoin Transaction Batching
How batching payments has benefited our customers, internal operations, and the overall Bitcoin network By Brock Miller Earlier this year, Coinbase rolled out Bitcoin transaction batching. Since launching, we have batched…
Blockchain Bites: Goldman’s Hire, Ether’s Options, Bitcoin’s Patronage – CoinDesk
The Federal Reserve is rushing ahead with its payments platform, Russia’s largest bank is going in on blockchain and so is Goldman Sachs. You’re reading Blockchain Bites, the daily roundup…
Bitcoin App Bottlepay Is Back From the Dead With a New Lightning App – CoinDesk
The social payments app Bottlepay (née Bottle Pay) aims to relaunch in the next few weeks, after shuttering due to regulations in December 2019. After restructuring the bitcoin wallet…
Xapo Suspends Credit Card Crypto Purchases, Shifts Operations to Gibraltar – CoinDesk
Crypto wallet and bitcoin custodian, Xapo is discontinuing support for credit card payments for digital asset purchases. In an emailed announcement on Friday, Xapo said its users would not…
A Beginner’s Guide to Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
By Sid Coelho-Prabhu Cryptocurrency’s promise is to make money and payments universally accessible– to anyone, no matter where they are in the world. The Decentralized Finance (DeFi) or Open Finance…
Window for Crypto Adoption in Asian Payment Market Shrinking
Some believe that the retail payments sector is so saturated in the US that the Asian market is the best bet for crypto penetration. However, Jason Choi, Head of…
Eyeing African Market, Binance Adds Nigerian Fiat-to-Crypto Gateway – CoinDesk
Binance has added a fiat-to-crypto gateway for Nigeria’s Niara (NGN), the company said. Facilitated by payments network Flutterwave, the addition starts a new phase of Binance adding sub-Saharan fiat…